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11-5-17

A Golden Age for American History Scholarship? It Was the Mid-1950s.

by Vaughn Davis Bornet

Just consider the names of historians writing then: C. Vann Woodward, Kenneth Stampp, John Hope Franklin, Thomas Bailey, Daniel Boorstin, Edmund Morgan, Robert V. Bruce, Richard Hofstadter, Edward C. Kirkland, and many more.

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A Golden Age for American History Scholarship? It Was the Mid-1950s.

by Vaughn Davis Bornet